Grace Baptist Santa Clarita: Service Podcast

On this 3rd weekend of Advent, we turn our attention to the person of Jesus Christ, the promised Messiah. Long before that night outside Bethlehem, God made an astounding set of promises to Abram. We know these as making up the Abrahamic Covenant. God promised him a special relationship with God Himself that would be the foundation of a great and numerous nation, a country of their own, and a divine mission through which eventually all the nations of the earth would find the blessing of God. But if we think carefully about this, we will see that this mission would mean that both Jews and non-Jews could have a special relationship with God, be part of His people, and be heirs to the promises. But how could this be accomplished? Surely Abraham couldn’t do it! The answer was always that God intended to send the Person, the Messiah, through whom the Abrahamic promises would not only be fulfilled in this age, but finally and completely fulfilled in the age to come. In reality, the Abrahamic promise was dependent u